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Showing content with the highest reputation on 07/10/25 in Posts

  1. Guys, they are gonna fuck this up so bad this year and spend it all like a bunch of poors do when they win the lottery. Calm the fuck down.
    31 points
  2. She just got tired of his wandering eye
    29 points
  3. My heart tell me the Eastlands were good people. People who loved the camp and the children entrusted to them. And if Mr. Eastland were here today, I believe he'd be doing the exact opposite of what we’ve seen from city, county, and state leaders. He would raise his hand and say: β€œI’m sorry. I should have done better.” Just look at the difference between someone like Mr. Eastland and Ingram City Councilman Raymond Howard. One died in his car on what amounted to a suicide mission to save several young women. The other stood on the bank and shouted to a child being swept downriver to β€œgrab a tree or something.” Both bore responsibilityβ€”one as a camp owner, the other as an elected official who ignored ample warningβ€”and both failed to meet the standard of care expected of them. Their failures didn’t start when the river rose; they began long before the first drops of rain. Why wasn’t someone at Camp Mystic awake and monitoring conditions that night? In the aftermath, there have been references to a longtime maintenance staffer who, in years past, would stay up overnight during storms to monitor the river. When did that practice stopβ€”and more importantly, why? Maybe it didn’t. Maybe someone was there and fell asleep to the droning of a weather radio. But if that’s true, it only compounds the tragedy. The cabins along the riverbank were known to be vulnerable, even under less extreme circumstances. And when you're housing 750 children on a property with limited elevation, that should demand not just caution, but heightened, even obsessive vigilanceβ€”especially during storms. That level of care shouldn’t be optional. It should be institutionalized. I haven’t even started allocating accountability to county or state officials. But after six days, I’ve grown weary of the deflections, the self-pity, and the contempt for legitimate questions from the media and the public. This isn’t about politics. It’s about basic human decency. It's about wanting to know why so many peopleβ€”so many childrenβ€”died. Evasion and hostility aren’t damage control. They’re accelerants. We shouldn't still be asking for answers. We should be demanding them. Not just for the sake of accountability, but out of respect for Aidan Heartfield, Chloe Childress, Jane Ragsdale, Hanna and Rebecca Lawrence, and the many others who lost their lives. Because the truth is owedβ€”to them, to their families, and in particular, to every parent of a child that isn't coming home.
    28 points
  4. Probably won't amount to much, but I just tweeted this. Any of y'all on X could retweet it to whatever news agency or reporter you can think of. Who knows. Might catch someone's eye.
    25 points
  5. Word on the street is that if you combine the money given to Carlton and Ojo, it still wouldn't pay Ketch's tab at Golden Corral.
    24 points
  6. So, to sum up, the richest state in the Union cannot afford to make sure people don't die in flash floods (which have been known to occur pretty much every summer), cannot afford to make sure people don't die in freezing conditions (which have been known to occur pretty much every winter), and cannot afford to place in the top half of state education rankings. But we can afford gazillions of dollars to block Central Americans from coming here to paint our houses and bus our tables. And we can give gazillions of dollars in tax breaks to crypto bros. What a fucking embarrassment this place is.
    23 points
  7. Campbell really seems to believe that he’s the smartest guy in the room. Yet he’s not quite smart enough to grasp one simple fact: if anyone in the country gave a single fuck about watching Texas Tech on TV, they’d already have a seat at the table and he wouldn’t need to gargle Trump’s balls to get one.
    23 points
  8. Wow. From Sam Spiegelman this morning: Hey y'all ... a few hours out from Jamarion Carlton's 4 pm commitment This has been Texas vs Baylor for days -- Baylor has had a ton of momentum since June 20. That momentum has faded a good bit over the last few days That has coincided with a full-court press from La'Allen Clark and many behind the scenes at UT. I am not ruling out Baylor, but I am leaning toward the Longhorns with Carlton based off intel and conversations had this morning My pick is on already on UT -- and I'm feeling stronger about this as we get closer
    21 points
  9. I love how the poorly run Antifa big cities are once again expected to use all their tax payer supported resources and run to the rescue in the middle of the night and save these magnificently run, fiercely independent β€œtry that in our small town”. What a mentality. But I assume that since San Antonio is less than half the distance than Austin, they must of sent their entire FD to successfully save Kerville at 4am and that that is why San Antonio FD is not run by incompetent DEI. Correct?
    21 points
  10. How the fuck is it efficient to have Austin firefighters drive 2 hours to knock on doors in Kerr County? If those FFs were legit worried enough with enough lead time to get there in time to make a difference, why weren’t they in that moment calling all available first responders in Kerr County and telling them to get their asses in gear? That whole scenario seems ridiculous
    21 points
  11. www.mcbroken.com indicates that the ice cream machine is in fact not working.
    20 points
  12. I'm still fucking annoyed by that "article". Our society has a lot of sicknesses, but one of the most insidious is the widely held belief that being rich and being smart are the same thing. Campbell says it outright at the top of the article - "I made a lot of money, therefore I'm smart" - and a major news organization accepts that as a given and prints it without any critical eye whatsoever. As for me, I'm over billionaires showing up and telling me that they, and only they, have the solution to all of my problems and indeed all of society's problems. In fact, I'm more inclined to believe the exact opposite. I guess I'm just in the minority on that, though. Certainly Matt Hayes seems on board.
    19 points
  13. I think you misunderstood that passage about him riding an ass into Jerusalem.
    18 points
  14. Umm, Mandyβ€”according to my BIL, I believe the correct term is β€œcloud seating.” Thank you for your attention to this matter.
    18 points
  15. Did the BBQ drop-off in Boerne for the SIL and his team. He said they started in Bergheim today and then went straight to Canyon Lake leapfrogging the teams in between. He said they found a "few" victims and went into a bit of detail on condition, but I'll leave that out here. It's what you think it would be and ID is not easy. Met his commander, who said the guys in the field were getting fed "But it's the same sandwiches over and over..." then grumbled a bit about "The guys who are staying in Kerrville are getting the good stuff." That is to say the ribs and bacon/jap wrapped chicken skewers were well received. He told me they'd be back searching Canyon Lake tomorrow. That aspect is just surreal. The whole thing is. Well, so, for the ttwwps purists...
    16 points
  16. A fuck ton of guys who end up married to them, if my ears and various threads on this board are to be believed.
    15 points
  17. You’re right, he’s dead. A good man that I’ve known most of my life, who loved people of all walks of life. He died trying to save campers, and this post will probably get negged because it’s emotionally charged, but fuck you.
    15 points
  18. I have coached every team my kids have played on. In fact I've basically been Mr. Mom for a couple years. Wife is a surgeon. I didn't have a part in the decision to send our daughter to Mystic. My wife went there and met all of her best friends there. All their daughters were there. Thankfully ours survived but not all of them did. Try again.
    14 points
  19. Preemptive FYI, the A and the I are nowhere near each other on the keyboard.
    14 points
  20. The death toll from this incident will exceed that of any jumbo jet crash. Yes, questions and data need to be asked and collected immediately while it's fresh.
    14 points
  21. This sounds like some dumb hindsight shit. "We coulda went down there and warned them if it wasn't for our Chief!" Why didn't they go warn the people in Travis/Williamson/Burnet county then? Sounds like they have previous beef with him and are trying to use this event to drum up support for his removal. They would have done the same thing had he sent the teams. They would be bitching about being shorthanded the next day.
    14 points
  22. I grew up in small town West Texas (Snyder) and have lived in Austin (7years) and DFW (38 years). As a youngster, we came down to Kerr county, Kingsland, Christoval, Leakey and Camp Wood to camp and fish. Good times. When retirement talk between my wife and I started, I told her I had a place in mind. We have lived here for 3 years. Absolutely love it. I like that we have dark skies and I can see the stars at night. I like that I don’t hear planes, trains and sirens at night. It took me a couple of months to get used to sleeping where it was so quiet. Another adjustment is to not being in a hurry and slow down, not be insistent. No one is in much of a hurry here. My friends here are a motley crew: the owner of a food truck/ nonprofit food bank, a semi-retired security guard and his wife that moved here from Northern California, a Kerr County native that works in construction and his wife that is my barber. One of my UT classmates and I have reconnected and he is the director of Schreiner University music dept and the conductor of our local symphony. I am on a deer lease with the nonprofit guy and the music guy. Go figure. Redneck hunters have different interests! The county has very affluent areas ( game ranches, retirement communities) and abject poverty. Ingram Tom Moore HS built a new band hall and installed showers because some of the kids in band have no running water in their homes. One of the reasons we started the nonprofit was to help these families with food and basic necessities. I can add more later if anyone is interested.
    13 points
  23. Ford F250 (the vehicle, not the poster here) buried in rock and sand:
    13 points
  24. Fuck Cody Campbell and Tech and there is no way he is the answer to anything other than name a booster who is only making things worse in college football at this time. I don't always agree with Sonny, but it is pretty obvious who he is referring to at the end of this clip:
    13 points
  25. We're on day 7. Tell us, when IS the appropriate day to ask and expect an answer on those questions? You can be specific here. Is it day 8? Day 10? Go ahead, when is it appropriate. My guess, is that it's appropriate right about the time all the media has left town.
    13 points
  26. This is a load of horseshit, and some fucking fallacies at work. First, Yes, I do think the best time to ask the questions out there is anytime after the event until it's as long as it takes to get the fucking answers. The American public has the attention span of a gnat, and people won't give a fuck in 3-6 months. And the notion that the camps and local authorities would or should need to stop doing what they're doing is a load of rap. The guys operating the choppers and searching for survivors and bodies and clearing debris aren't the people that need to sit down and answer some questions. The fucking county judge, absofuckinglutely he should be asked the hard questions now. That motherfucking isn't mobilizing or doing shit that any of his deputies couldn't do for the time it takes to have a press conference and answer some fucking questions. Instead, he cuts press conferences short any time he gets pressured because he knows he fucked up. Same with the fucking governor who's out there calling people "losers" for asking who's to blame...when it's obvious even to you there's a fuck ton of blame to go around. Any notion of the news media looking for survivors to tell their stories being lobbed together with my other two points is a red fucking herring. It's irrelevant. Yes, the media is going to look for those stories and harass families. That doesn't mean that the first two things are out of line. In fact, they're necessary.
    13 points
  27. If it’s Tech, fans across the country should cheer for that.
    13 points
  28. I came here to post that article. It's not long, but it's got a few interactive elements to show the topography and flood zone designations, so I'll share the full thing with this gift link. The article also talks about how the camp's recent expansion would've been the time to move those cabins out of there. It's worth reading, because it details the expansions, etc. Still, they include this section: I'd really like to get some clarification on this. Were they "unable" to secure grants or were they "too pigheaded" to accept them? The commissioners’ court transcripts say the latter.
    13 points
  29. Your inbox should be interesting.
    13 points
  30. An ex-GF of mine was a legacy counselor and 'camp mom" at Mystic. As a full time gig, she's a guidance counselor in Frisco. We ran in to each other about a year or so back, and she said that when her boys were done with HS in a few years, her plan was to retire to Hunt and go to work for the Eastlands full time. She's been going up there since she was 11 years old and loves the area. I got up Saturday morning to see all the news and I sent her a text, saying that I hoped she was safe. I didn't really give it much thought that she didn't respond right away, figuring she likely was busy. She eventually texted me back on Sunday and said that she was there, but left on Tuesday before it all happened. She included that she knew that Dick Eastland had died. It's an odd spot to be in. She's an ex, but I still care about her and I know she is hurting like mad right now, but I don't feel like I can reach out, or should reach out. Sorry for the slight derail. That's just my brush with this whole thing. It's been a really heavy week and I just wanted to get that out there.
    12 points
  31. If you’re an elected official or otherwise in a leadership role, part of the job is answering questions at a press conference. Especially after a major disaster. We should expect people in those roles to conduct themselves professionally. That hasn’t been the case here
    12 points
  32. Oh no, the horror! Politicians get unfair questions all the time, and they have agency to respond accordingly. Why you're so upset about it in this particular case is curious. Being a mayor is a hard and often times thankless job. This dude signed up for it. Stop treating him like a victim.
    12 points
  33. This is so stridently doom-y for July. Go touch some grass and get some sun.
    11 points
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    11 points
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